There ain't no samurai, there are few geisha, Japanese are not the most polite people in the world. In practice, there is no special love or care for nature, nor is Japan uniquely unique. Sorry, but the sugar-coated fantasyland-Japan of Edwin O. Reischauer et al does not exist--if it ever did.

Friday, March 02, 2007

Well, as I said, Japan discriminates against everyone who is not an elite snob like Fujiwara, Abe etc. The Washington Post has discovered to their surprise that in Japan, Japanese women are still expected to serve tea and do other menial tasks in the workplace. Men aren't. This is bushido, isn't it? Women certainly have no place in equality with men under bushido and Fujiwara's bizarre fantasy for Japan.

In 1986, Japan banned sexual discrimination against women, but provided no penalties for violations (a normal way of making fake law here). My wife laughed at that as it was such an obvious joke. Many of the foreign media ate it up.

And Japan thinks it is going to fill the gap as the population ages with foreign workers? Do they think foreign workers will be as passive and submissive as the Japanese are forced to be? Well, maybe so. The government will do its best to ensure that they have to be.

*To be accurate, the public does not directly elect the prime minister. He is chosen by the LDP whose members are elected by the public.